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Martin Malcolm Elbl is a historian whose interests cover diverse aspects of military architecture, port cities, long-distance commerce, heritage politics, archaeology, cultural tourism, and conservation, as well as 'virtual archaeology', above all at cross-cultural meeting points. He has written and given talks and conference presentations on topics involving Portuguese history, Morocco, the Balearic Islands, Italian and Jewish medieval merchants, Habsburg studies, palaeography, epistolary studies, copper mining and copper trade, rammed earth architecture, trans-Saharan commerce, and late medieval and early modern fortifications. He focuses on the application of GIS and other modelling techniques to a variety of historical data and sources, including pre-modern maps, plans, and architectural drawings. Multi-source reverse mapping for heritage site identification and evaluation is one of the features of his work.
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Key to sample illustrations on this page:
a:Sixteenth-century structural schematic of bastioned fortification curtain wall
b:Tangier: Porta do Campo/Catherine Port (modern Place 9 Avril/Grand Socco area)
c:Tangier: Portuguese Citadel and additional seventeenth-century English works
d:Tangier: original north-west defences of the sixteenth-century Portuguese Citadel (future Kasba quarter): Bab al-Kasba sector (the Bab al-Kasba as we know it today did not exist between the 1540s and 1684)
e:Tangier: Bni Idder quarter (west sector (i.e. TALIM area)), interpretive historic plan (based on 2012-2013 modelling of matched historic and modern data)
f:Tangier: Kasba, interpretive historic plan (based on 2012-2013 modelling of assorted data)
Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662): Colonial Urban Fabric as Cross-Cultural Skeleton Martin Malcolm Elbl Portuguese Studies Review Monograph Series, No. 1. Toronto and Peterborough: Baywolf Press / Éditions Baywolf, 2013. 1,074 pages (xxv +1047 + frt./back matter); 138 black-and-white ills. (maps, diagrams, structural schematics, GIS-based analysis of archival sources ); Appendices (incl. archival documents); Glossary; Bibliography; Index; 9" x 6.5" (2" spine); list price $140.00 CAD ; ISBN 978-0-921437-50-5 (paperback [soft-cover]). In stock.
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Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662) deals with the pre-modern architecture of Tangier, a dynamically expanding Moroccan port on the south shore of the Strait of Gibraltar. The book offers a “virtual archaeology” of the Portuguese urban fabric heritage--both vanished and preserved--in Tangier's médina, the walled Old Town. Solidly grounded in archival sources and profoundly revisionist, Portuguese Tangier alters our image of the médina to an unexpected extent. Yet it makes no claim to being "definitive" in any sense -- on the contrary, it is no more than a starting point. The volume stands at a critical intersection of well-known documents, recently located sources, and those that have been heavily underused (military engineering plans -- Portuguese as well as English, Portuguese building estimates and construction proposals). It plays a critical searchlight over discrepancies that become evident once spatio-temporal GIS modelling is deployed to re-examine the sources and the existing literature. The book challenges a rainbow of standard interpretations and entrenched Tangerois urban legends. It ranges widely, from recent hypotheses to newly confirmed toponyms, contentious architectural details, and the design and construction of the fortifications. The scope extends to historic environmental factors affecting the Old Port (studied through a new 3D bathymetric model of the historic anchorage -- the only such model available for now). The well-known "Tangier" series of drawings and etchings by the Bohemian artist Wenceslas (Václav) Hollar (1607-1677) comes into its own here, in a fresh, analytical, modelling-oriented context that interlinks Portuguese and English data tightly. The Portuguese period (1471-1662) is set in a frame that encompasses both the pre-1471 Muslim port and various 1662-1684 English components of the urban fabric—genuine as well as spurious. The book targets mainly a specialist audience (historians, conservationists, heritage planners, urban archaeologists, itinerary and exhibit designers dealing with Tangier), but will also reward the patient casual reader genuinely interested in the fortified médina and its history.
Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662) fait le point sur l'histoire de l'architecture portugaise du port de Tanger, cette cheville maritime du nord marocain saisie à présent dans un tourbillon de développement. Le livre offre une "virtual archaeology" du patrimoine portugais dans la vieille ville, la médina--d'une part un patrimoine disparu (et par conséquent "virtuel") mais aussi, d'autre part, étrangement préservé, bien que souvent inconnu, méconnu, ou ignoré. Solidement ancré dans les fonds d'archives et profondément révisionniste sans aucune prétention d'être "definitif", Portuguese Tangier change notre compréhension de la médina. L'ouvrage se situe au carrefour critique des sources -- documents classiques ainsi que des pièces nouvellement découvertes ou redécouvertes (plans de génie militaire -- portugais aussi bien qu'anglais, des devis estimatifs portugais et des travaux d'étude). L'auteur met en évidence les disjonctions fondamentales qui surgissent du moment que les ouvrages de recherche disponibles à présent s'affrontent aux documents dans un cadre de modélisation SIG spatio-temporel. Le livre met en question une panoplie d'interprétations et de "légendes urbaines" Tangéroises bien établies. Portuguese Tangier fournit une fusion d'hypothèses récentes, de toponymes nouvellement confirmés, de détails architecturaux à débat, et d'une exploration en détail des fortifications. L'enquête s'étend aux facteurs environnementaux dans le Vieux Port (étudiés au moyen d'un nouveau modèle bathymétrique de l'ancrage -- le seul modèle du fond de l'ancrage historique, en trame 3D, disponible pour le moment). La série "Tanger" de Wenceslas (Václav) Hollar (1607-1677) (dessins et gravures) se situe ici dans un contexte d'analyse et de modélisation qui fusionne les sources portugaises et anglaises. La discussion de l'architecture portugaise (1471-1662) s'encadre entre des vignettes du port marocain d'avant-1471 et d'éléments anglais du tissu urbain -- éléments véridiques aussi bien qu'imaginaires. L'ouvrage s'adresse principalement aux spécialistes (historiens, professionnels du patrimoine, archéologues, et concepteurs d'itinéraires et d'expositions) mais offre néanmoins de quoi bien contenter tous les amateurs de la médina et de son histoire.
Relevancy Profiling Tags: Tangier -- architecture; Tangier -- history; Tangier -- medina -- heritage; Tangier -- tourist orientation; Tangier -- heritage planning and classification; Tangier -- tourist guidebooks and webpages; Tanger -- Port de Tanger Ville -- histoire; Tanger -- architecture militaire; Tanger -- médina -- rues -- histoire; Tanger -- enceinte fortifiée -- histoire; Tanger -- période portugaise; Tanger -- période anglaise; Tanger -- héritage -- architecture; Tanger -- citadelle portugaise; Portuguese colonial policy -- Tangier; Strait of Gibraltar -- history; English colonies -- history; port history -- Mediterranean; history of fortifications; medinas -- gentrification; medina (Tangier) -- tourist itineraries -- Portuguese and English periods; Tangier Old Port/Port de Tanger Ville -- spatial interpretation -- reconstructive history; Wenceslas Hollar -- works as historic sources; Wenceslas Hollar -- engravings; Tangier -- archival sources; Tangier -- documents; Pastrana Tapestries -- interpretation; Tânger -- arquitectura; Tânger -- história; Tânger -- medina -- património; Tânger -- itinerários - turismo; Tânger -- política do património; Tânger -- arquitectura militar; Tânger -- muralhas -- fortificação abaluartada; Tânger -- medina -- casco urbano -- história
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Portuguese Studies Review
ISSN 1057-1515 print
Semiannual
v. : ill. : 23 cm
1. Portugal–Civilization–Periodicals. 2. Africa, Portuguese-speaking–Civilization–Periodicals. 3. Brazil–Civilization–Periodicals. 4. Portugal–Civlisation–Périodiques. 5. Afrique lusophone– Civilisation–Périodiques. 6. Brésil–Civilisation–Périodiques.
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Library of Congress Cataloguing Record
Portuguese Studies Review
ISSN 1057-1515 print
Semiannual
v. : ill. : 23 cm
1. Portugal–Civilization–Periodicals. 2. Africa, Portuguese-speaking–Civilization–Periodicals. 3. Brazil–Civilization–Periodicals.
DP532 .P67 909/.091/5691 20 92-659516
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